If Jason Giroir is as reckless, dumb, judgmental and racist as his online activity suggests he is, Justin Giroir has no business serving as a New Orleans police officer. He needs to be permanently removed -- and now.

New Orleans police officer Justin Giroir was suspended Monday after making offensive online comments on a local news website.

The veteran cop was suspended Monday after he made plainly offensive comments about last month's killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., on WWL-TV's website.

Around the country, people outraged about Martin's death have protested while wearing hooded sweatshirts because that's the attire Martin's killer -- George Zimmerman -- found so suspicious that he called 911 as Martin walked in the rain.

Apparently, Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain, was only a cop in his mind but has prejudices similar to those with real badges. Similar to Giroir at least, who summarized Martin's demise with this comment: "Act like a Thug Die like one!"

When another reader called that comment racist and asked if a wearing a hoodie makes somebody a thug, Giroir responded, "come on down to our town with a 'Hoodie' and you can join Martin in HELL and talk about your racist stories!:-P"

Giroir writes this using his actual name. He writes it after a man much more powerful than he, assistant U.S. Attorney Sal Perricone, was exposed as having made reckless online comments with the pseudonym "Henry L. Mencken1951" and consequently lost his job.

Not only did Giroir eschew a fake name; not only did he make his comments after Perricone's public humiliation, but he also wrote them while under investigation for his part in this month's fatal police shoot-out in Mid-City.

Giroir is the officer who, while off-duty and working on police overtime for the Mid-Security District, pulled over Earl Sipp at 5:30 a.m. as he was driving his brother, Justin Sipp, to work at Burger King.

Giroir has said he pulled the car over because the light over the Pontiac Grand Am's license plate wasn't working. Giroir's attorney, Eric Hessler, has said that Earl Sipp also made a right turn without signaling and ran a stop sign.

Police say Justin Sipp, who'd been ordered out of the car, pulled a .380 caliber pistol from his waistband and fired it 14 times, seriously wounding officers Anthony Mayfield and Michael Asevedo and sending a bullet into the Taser stun gun Giroir carried.

Justin Sipp was killed that morning. Police say Mayfield shot his weapon seven times at the 20-year-old. Giroir reportedly fired his weapon once.

Officers are routinely put on desk duty after they've fired their weapons. Giroir being investigated isn't automatically a suggestion that he acted improperly that morning. However, the NAACP did request that the federal government -- which has already had damning things to say about New Orleans officers' use of force and the department's subsequent investigations -- lead an inquiry into what happened here March 3.

It is in this context that Giroir openly reveals his prejudices about what constitutes thugs and how by their very nature they deserve to die.

Hessler said his client admits to making the post, that he didn't mean it to be racist or offensive, "although it came out that way. He acknowledges he should have chosen better words."

But the posting on the WWWL-TV site isn't Giroir's only online embarrassment. He maintained a Myspace page at the time of the shooting that included this confession: "Hello, my name is Jason C. Giroir. I have been a New Orleans police officer for almost 10 years. I enjoy my job because I like to make a positive impact in life. Sometimes that means not doing everything by the book. Everyone who knows me understands what I mean."

On that same page, Giroir lists his occupation as "Punisher."

Serpas has said, "If you lie, you die," that is, lying officers will get the ax. Here's a case where an officer is being open and honest and deserves just as much to be removed.